Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares - New, Detailed Info and Package Art for The Complete (U.K.) Series 2

There are a million ways to ruin a restaurant, but only one man has the audacity to attempt a rescue: Gordon Ramsay, "the Dr. House of sick restaurants" (NPR). In his storied career, Ramsay has earned 16 Michelin stars and launched culinary successes around the globe. This International Emmy-winning series gives him one week to bring foundering restaurants back from the brink of collapse.

Dishing out heaping helpings of truth - liberally peppered with profanity - Ramsay goes eyeball to eyeball with lazy chefs, surly servers, and clueless owners, sharing his unbridled passion for food and hard-won business acumen. And he always returns later to see whether his interventions have worked. Part comedy, part drama, and all reality, these Kitchen Nightmares give a strikingly unglamorous glimpse into the inner workings of restaurants and the people who run them.

This past March we reported that Acorn Media is cooking up a September 1st DVD release of Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares - The Complete Series 2 (the original U.K. version of the show). Now the studio has sent over the details and package art for this 3-disc set ($29.99 SRP). Expect 10 episodes running 481 minutes, presented in anamorphic widescreen, Stereo sound and with English subtitles. There will also be a bonus biography of Gordon Ramsay (who dishes up his usual strong coarse language on these installments, so be warned!). Here's the breakdown of this DVD meal, followed by a look at the box:

• Episode 1: Lanterna (Letchworth, Hertfordshire)
  A British chef who calls himself "Alessandro" claims to offer authentic Italian food, provoking Gordon to use another F-word: fake.
• Episode 2: D-place (Chelmsford, Essex)
  Offering fusion confusion on its menu, and full-scale screaming matches between the head chef and maitre d', D-place is a real disaster.
• Episode 3: Momma Cherri's Soul Food Shack (Brighton, East Sussex)
  The owner has personality to spare, and the head chef has talent. So why doesn't this tourist-town eatery make money?
• Episode 4: Momma Cherri's Soul Food Shack/Big House Revisited
  Two years after his first visit, Gordon finds that the bighearted momma has moved to the Big House...with big problems.
• Episode 5: La Riviera (Inverness, Scotland)
  Despite the finest resources, an ambitious, superbly trained chef has failed to win over local folks with his too fancy French cuisine.
• Episode 6: La Riviera/Abstract Revisited
  With a spin-off brasserie going like gangbusters, La Riviera - newly rechristened as Abstract - falls back to Frankensteinian rather than Franco-Scottish creations.
• Episode 7: The Sandgate (Kent)
  With four restaurants serving 168 dishes, the Sandgate suffers from lack of focus in its kitchen and too little discipline among its staff.
• Episode 8: Clubway 41 (Blackpool, Lancashire)
  This dysfunctional enterprise in a resort town provides Gordon the perfect place to detail his nine rules for how not to run a restaurant.
• Episode 9: Oscar's (Nantwich, Cheshire)
  Named for the Irish writer Oscar Wilde, this seemingly friendly restaurant has serious family problems bubbling below the surface.
• Episode 10: La Gondola (Derby, East Midlands)
  Still stuck in the past, this once lively dining-and-dancing establishment has fallen far from its heyday in the '70s-but the owner doesn't seem to notice.
• BONUS: Biography of Gordon Ramsay